So most of you know a little about this but thought I would give you the low down to what happened. Thursday morning I noticed Jack's cheeks were red, I called the
pediatrician and we decided that he was having a reaction from the antibiotics he was on because he had been in the sun the day before at school and this particular medicine reacts to the sun. About 5:00 that day I noticed that he was covered in a rash. I assumed he was having an allergic
reaction to something so I called Andrew and had him pick up some
benadryl on the way home from work. We finally got him to take the
benadryl by 7:00 and he fell asleep about 8:00.
Allergic reactions scare me and my mind
immediately jumps to what if he stops breathing. I had Andrew move him to my bed. I woke up around 11:30 to him talking and told him several times to go back to sleep. I finally woke up enough to listen to him and he was making no sense, I figured he was asleep and talking. I took one look and him and he was awake, now this was getting strange. I grabbed him to cuddle him to me and he was burning up, like so hot it made my skin hurt to hold him. I called Andrew and we forced
motrin down him then he and Andrew took a shower together to try to get his fever down. He was still talking total nonsense and by this point could not walk, I dressed him back in his
PJs and laid down holding him. He then had a seizure, I was almost 100% positive it was from the fever, but Andrew grabbed him I got dressed, and Jack and I headed to the hospital.
On the way to the ER I
texted one of my best friends who works there as a Child Life Specialist. I thought she might be working turns out she was off. She asked me if I wanted her to go watch Emma or meet me at the hospital, I told her we would be fine and I would cal her later. Turns out that was not good enough, when I got to the hospital she met us at the doors to the ER. After tons of
Motrin and extra
Tylenol they got his fever to break. Thanks to Miranda we got to skip over the second waiting room entirely (where some people had been for over 6 hours!!) and got to a room. The doctor still could not see us for about 3 hours, but we had a nurse watching Jack and we were snuggled in a bed. I can not imagine waiting in the waiting room for 6 hours. Thanks God we have Miranda, she is an amazing friend and even more than that part of our family. My kids call her Aunt Miranda and she is every bit an Aunt to them. I am so thankful she was there to make this scary experience a little better. She ended up leaving and I snuggled Jack until the doctor came in around 6 AM. I do have to say because of her we got rock star
treatment and I love her for that.
Turned out he was diagnosed with fifths disease.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/skin/fifth.htmlThis is a very common virus that kids get. He was also diagnosed with febrile seizures which are seizures caused by a high temp, they are very common in kids and most likely it will never happen again. They have no long term effects mainly are just scary for parents!
We were discharged about 8:00 in the morning on Friday and headed home. Andrew stayed home with Jack that day as I had a baby shower to put on for
Emma's kindergarten aide. He and Andrew slept until I got home at 2:30.
It was scary and we are so thankful once again to have friends/family there to help us out, but he is back to 100% today so all is well. He had his first t-ball practice yesterday and we took him to see The
Lorax (loved it!!!). All is well and we are back to normal, well as normal as the
Wallace family can be:)
When I married Andrew I took a vow for better or worse and am still waiting for that worse to happen. People say marriage is hard work, and maybe for some it is. I am sure it helps that I am blessed with one of the most patient and laid back men on the face of the earth. But for us marriage has been anything but work. He has held me up during the worst of times and laughed with me during the best. He has patiently loved me when I am being difficult, and celebrated with me when things go our way.
I once read a quote that being in love means you never have to cry alone again, and I can honestly say in the 7 years we have been together that has rung true. He holds me when I am sad and calms my fears when I am worried. He is truly the most amazing man on the earth for me. Those of you that know Andrew and I well know that we could not be more opposite. Where I am loud and talkative, he is quiet and thoughtful, where I am quick and impulsive he is slow and planning. I have no idea why God put us together, but he sure knew what he was doing when he did, I can not imagine a more perfect man than Andrew for me.
My love for him grows stronger every day, and I can not imagine my life without him. I was out with some girlfriends the other day and we were talking about our husbands/boyfriends. I made the comment that if something happened to Andrew I don't think I would know how to breathe. He is my life, he is my love and he is my best friend. I look forward to waking up to him everyday and seeing him every night. He makes me laugh, me makes me happy. I am so very blessed to call him a husband and friend.
The second day we started off with a princess breakfast at Epcot. We had done the lunch before when we came with my parents and the food was horrible so we thought we would try breakfast instead. It was a good call the food was amazing, and so were the princesses. This is by far my favorite princess meal.
And yes Emma has on a personalized 
That is it for part 1, I will be working on part 2 tomorrow and will add that sometime tonight, or tomorrow. We are having a baby shower for Emma's kindergarten aide tomorrow so I am working on that too, busy time of year but I would not change it!
